“李约瑟难题”的再探索

Re-exploration of Joseph Lee's Puzzle

“李约瑟难题”至今仍然困扰着学术界。学者们从各自的角度提出了不同的解答方案,但众说纷纭,莫衷一是。笔者通过对中西科学观在思维方式、价值取向、思想观念等方面的比较,认为近代科学在欧洲出现是科学自身发展的结果,中国传统科学根本不具备产生近代科学的要素,因此西方意义上的近代科学是不可能在中国诞生的。

Joseph Lee＇s puzzle still haunts the academic circle. Though different scholars have given different answers, no accepted answer has been reached. Through the comparison of thinking mode, value orientation and ideological ideas between the West and China, the author thinks the appearance of modem science in Europe is the result of the development of science itself. The traditional Chinese science does not possess the factors of modem science in western sense. Modem science in the West can never be born in China.